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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Historical Linguistics and Language Studies, Global Peace and Security Dynamics and Linguistic research and analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#7
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2
of 358,040
Works
239
Citations
3.7k
Citations per work
15.5

What does Noam Chomsky research?

Sociology and Political Science: 17.8%Political Science and International Relations: 14.6%Language and Linguistics: 13.7%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5.5%other fields: 48.4%18%top field
Sociology and Political Science17.8%Political Science and International Relations14.6%Language and Linguistics13.7%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5.5%other fields48.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations15% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics14% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy5% of their works
  6. 6History3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Noam Chomsky's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Teaching, Linguistic Historiography, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to Protect, Discourse Analysis and Language Variation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Teaching111 topic
  2. Linguistic Historiography111 topic
  3. Pragmatics103 topics
  4. Sociolinguistics103 topics
  5. Humanitarian Intervention91 topic
  6. Responsibility to Protect91 topic
  7. Discourse Analysis72 topics
  8. Language Variation72 topics
  9. Communication Practices41 topic
  10. Semantics41 topic
  11. Syntax41 topic
  12. Text Linguistics41 topic
  13. Argumentation31 topic
  14. Hispanic Linguistics31 topic
  15. Lexicography31 topic
  16. Metaphor31 topic
  17. Neural Machine Translation31 topic
  18. Rhetoric31 topic
  19. Statistical Machine Translation31 topic
  20. Time31 topic

Where does Noam Chomsky work?

Noam Chomsky's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Noam Chomsky have?

Science Explorer counts 239 works and 3,697 citations for Noam Chomsky, ranking #7 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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